CA2557506C - Method for sealing a fiber-based material - Google Patents

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CA2557506C
CA2557506C CA2557506A CA2557506A CA2557506C CA 2557506 C CA2557506 C CA 2557506C CA 2557506 A CA2557506 A CA 2557506A CA 2557506 A CA2557506 A CA 2557506A CA 2557506 C CA2557506 C CA 2557506C
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Petri Laakso
Jari Hovikorpi
Risto Vesanto
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Abstract

The invention relates to a method for sealing a fibre-based material (1, 4) to a counter-surface to be bonded to it by melting polymer present at the sealing point. In accordance with the invention, the sealing is performed by directing a laser beam (8) through the fibre layer (4) of the material to a radiation-absorbing pigment disposed in the sealing area (9), with the absorption heat melting the polymer (5) and generating the sealing. The method allows sealing of plastic-coated paper or board to itself, to another plastic counter-surface or also to paper or board without any plastic coating. It is also possible to seal uncoated paper or board to paper or board containing plastic, such as plastic-coated paper or board, or to a plastic film. The absorptive pigment, e.g. carbon black, may be admixed in the plastic coating of the board or paper or the plastic film formed on the counter-surface, or the pigment may be located on the surface of the material to be sealed or its fibre layer, or on the counter-surface to which the material is sealed, e.g. as a component of printing ink applied to the counter-surface.

Description

Method for sealing a fibre-based material This invention relates to a method for sealing a fibre-based material to a counter-s surface to be bonded to the material by melting polymer present at the sealing point.
Heat sealing is a commonly used technique in bonding polymer-coated fibre-based materials, such as coated papers and boards. The sealing may be performed by pressing the surfaces to be sealed between heatable sealing elements, so that the heat melts the coating plastic, thus causing the surfaces to seal together, or a coating plastic can be melted by hot-air blowing before the surfaces to be sealed are joined.
These heat-sealing techniques are widely used in the packaging technology for the manufacture of bags, containers, casings and boxes and in techniques for closing product packages.
It is also previously known to seal plastic-coated paper or board by means of a laser beam that melts polymer. Such sealing methods have been depicted i.a. in EP
1069984 B1, US 4540392 and US 5690775. The laser beam is directed to the plastic coating of the paper or board, and then the surfaces to be sealed are pressed against each other, the molten plastic bonding the surfaces to each other at the sealing point when cooling and solidifying.
Laser sealing has principally been performed by means of a C02 laser, the polymers used in the coatings and films absorbing the wavelength generated by this so that the beam immediately melts the polymers when hitting them. However, WO
02/00144 discloses a laser-sealing method for plastic films that is based on the use of a pigment that absorbs radiation and is heated under the effect of the absorption heat. This publication uses Nd:YAG or diode laser as the laser source, the wavelengths of these penetrating through the plastic layers without being absorbed.
The method aims at directing the sealing to the interfaces between plastic films placed on top of each other, without the films melting, with consequent fusion to each other over their entire thickness. The pigment heated under the effect of the beam and melting the surrounding polymer may be disposed at the interface between the plastic films, or the sealed film may be totally dispersed with absorbing pigment.
In known methods for sealing polymer-coated paper or board using C02 laser, the laser beam is directed to the coating from an opposite laser source. It has not been possible to use a method in which the laser beam melting the polymer would be brought to the seal point through the fibre layer of the paper or board, because the laser beam would burn the paper or board. As far as the applicant knows, this is the reason why laser sealing has not been applied to the sealing of coated papers or boards that have been previously placed facing each other, but one has only used a process, in which the coating is first melted with laser and the surfaces are subsequently pressed against each other in order to bond them to each other.
The purpose of the present invention is thus to find a solution to the problem mentioned above, by means of which a fibre-based material, such as paper or board, could be sealed by a laser beam in a situation where the surfaces to be sealed have been disposed adjacent each other before the laser beam is directed to them.
The solution of the invention is characterised by the sealing taking place with the laser beam directed through the fibrous layer of the material to a radiation-absorbing pigment disposed in the sealing area, so that the absorption heat melts the polymer present at the sealing point and thus produces the sealing.
The invention is based on the inventors' findings regarding the effects of laser radiation on fibre materials, such as paper or board. As mentioned above, COa laser that melts and seals polymers is known to burn paper or board, and this process has been utilised for making identifying marks in these, among other things.
Diode, Nd:YAG or fibre laser can generate wavelengths that do not burn paper, but then strong radiation scattering will occur in the fibre layer. Laser beams acting in the wavelength range 500 - 1,500 nm are suitable. According to the prevailing idea, the laser beam cannot be directed through a fibre material such as paper or board.
The measurements conducted by the inventors also confirmed the scattering of the radiation; a measurement sensor placed opposite the laser source on the opposite side of the fibre layer detected low radiation intensities, which were but a fraction of the original ones.
Despite the facts above, the trials led to the following unexpected observation: when the laser beam was directed to a board that had been coated with a polymer layer containing an absorbing pigment on the side opposite to the incidence direction of the beam, the radiation resulted in melting of the coating layer. This observation was made both with a diode and an Nd:YAG laser, which do not have an effect that burns the fibre layer or melts the polymer directly, i.e. without the contribution of the pigment.
It has further been observed in connection with the invention that the pigment does not necessarily have to be in direct contact with the fibre layer, but the laser beam reaches it also through a transparent polymer layer placed adjacent the fibre layer, and also that the melting effect of the pigment reaches the adjacent transparent polymer layer, so that this layer becomes sealable also on its side opposite to the pigment.
Owing to the premises above, the invention offers the possibility of numerous different applications. The pigment may be included in the fibre-based material to be sealed, or optionally, the pigment may be contained in a member to which the fibre-based material is sealed. The pigment may be dispersed in the polymer coating of the fibre-based material or in a polymer film to which the fibre-based material is sealed. Optionally, the pigment may be disposed on the surface of the material to be sealed or a material layer of this, and then the pigment can also be interposed between the material layers, e.g. adjacent the fibre layer under the transparent polymer layer.
We may cite as an example of preferred application objects of the invention the sealing of a packaging board coated with a grey-pigmented polymer layer to a counter-surface, e.g. to itself. Such packaging boards, whose polymer coating imitates an aluminium foil, have been described in WO patent specification 01/76976 and FI patent application 20021359. The light-shielding grey coating layer is disposed on the inner surface of the board in the product packages, the invention allowing closing of the packages by sealing, with the laser beam melting the pigmented polymer layer being directed to the seal point through the board from the outside of the package. In addition to ordinary linear seals, we may mention another object of application comprising shaped seals, such as e.g. the seals of the lids of yoghurt containers.
The invention is explained in greater detail below with the aid of examples and with reference to the accompanying drawings, in which Figure 1 illustrates the sealing of a plastic-coated board sheet of the invention in tubular shape, Figure 2, which is a cross-sectional view II-II of figure 1, shows a seal point, at which the pigmented plastic coating layers of the board are located opposite each other, Figure 3 corresponds to figure 2, except that the plastic coating of the board consists of an inner transparent layer and an outer pigmented layer, Figure 4 corresponds to figure 2, except that the plastic coating of the board consists of an inner pigmented layer and an outer transparent layer, Figure 5 shows the sealing of the board of figure 2 equipped with a pigmented plastic coating, in which the edges of the board to be sealed together are disposed in overlapping relationship, Figure 6 corresponding to figure 2 illustrates the sealing of a board equipped with a transparent plastic coating by means of an absorbing pigment applied onto the coating, Figure 7 illustrates the sealing of a board equipped with a pigmented plastic coating to a transparent plastic film, Figure ~ illustrates the sealing of a board equipped with a pigmented plastic coating to a transparent plastic film by means of an absorbing pigment interposed between the board and the plastic coating, Figure 9 illustrates the sealing of an uncoated board to a pigmented plastic film, and Figure 10 illustrates the sealing of an uncoated board to a transparent plastic film by means of an absorbing pigment disposed at the sealing point.
Figures 1 and 2 are schematic views of the sealing of a double-folded sheet 1 of plastic-coated board into a tubular shape. The opposite edges 2, 3 of the sheet 1 are brought facing each other with the plastic coating layers 5, 5' of the board 4, 4' adjacent each other and pressed between elongated holders 6 in order to retain the sheet in position during the sealing. The sealing takes place by means of a laser head 7 moving in alignment with the holders 6, the laser head being e.g. a diode laser generating a 940 nm wavelength. The laser head 7 directs a laser beam 8 to the seal point 9 from the side of the joined edge portions of the sheet 1, the sealing being performed by moving the laser head from one end to the other of the sealing line in the direction of the arrow in figure 1.

The sealing of the invention is based on the effect of the pigment disposed at the seal point 9, resulting in radiation absorption and fusion of the coating plastic. In the embodiment illustrated in figure 2, the plastic coating 5 of the board, constituting the inner surface of the tube thus formed, contains absorptive pigment evenly 5 dispersed, such as e.g. carbon black. When board is sealed for package applications, pigmenting of the plastic coating may provide a light shield for the packaged product, and by combining black and white pigment, such as e.g. carbon black and titanium dioxide, the coating can be imparted a grey colour shade similar to that of an aluminium foil. The laser beam 8 directed from the laser head 7 to the seal point 9, shown in the figure with a single arrow, hits the board layer 4, where it is scattered into different directions without damage to the board. A sufficient portion of the beam 8 penetrates the board layer and is absorbed into the pigment contained in the plastic coating layers 5, 5', the pigment being heated and the coating plastic at the seal point 9 melting under this heat. The coating plastic may be e.g.
polyethene (PE), polypropene (PP) or polyethylene terephtalate (PET) commonly used for extruded heat-seal coatings. A variety of other plastics are applicable, e.g.
ABS, CA, COC, EVA, HIPS, PA, PC, PEEK, PEI, PEN, PETG, PMMA, PPO, PS, PVC, PVDF, POM, PSU and PU. The melted plastic layers 5, 5' are fused together, forming a tight seal between the edges of the sheet 1 when solidifying.
In the embodiment of figure 3, the board 4 is equipped with an inner transparent coating layer 10 and an outer pigmented coating layer 5. The transparent layer may consist e.g. of ethylene vinyl alcohol polymer (EVOH) or polyamide (PA), which allow for an oxygen, aromatic and/or water vapour barrier shielding the packaged product, and the pigmented layer 5 may be similar to the one illustrated in figure 2. When the transparent layer 10 is pervious to the wavelength of the diode laser mentioned above, the pigmented layers 5, 5' will be sealed together in the manner described above.
The coated board in figure 4 differs from the one of figure 2 in that the pigmented plastic forms an inner coating layer 5, onto which a thin transparent coating layer 11 has been applied. The pigmented layer 5 and the transparent layer 11 may both contain polyethene as the coating plastic. The laser beam 8 penetrating through the board 4 is mainly absorbed into the inner pigmented coating layer 5, however, the absorption heat thus generated suffices for melting also the transparent plastic layers 1 l, 11' so that they seal together.
In figure 5 the edges 2, 3 of a board sheet, which is a board 4 equipped with a pigmented plastic coating 5 corresponding to figure 2, have been disposed overlapping with a view to sealing. This sealing manner is applicable e.g. in the manufacture of casing or container packages. The laser beam 8 is directed to the seal point from the outside of the package, and the sealing is based on the effect of the laser beam penetrating through the board 4, resulting in heating of the pigmented layer 5 and melting of the coating plastic. When solidified, the coating plastic, e.g. polyethene, adheres to the uncoated board surface, generating a seal that closes the side of the package. If desired, the board 4 can be equipped with a transparent plastic layer made of e.g. polyethene, which will form the outer surface of the package, and then the sealing takes place between the two coating layers containing polyethene.
In the embodiment of figure 6, sealing is performed on a board 4 equipped with a transparent plastic coating layer 12. With a view to sealing, a pigment 13 absorbing radiation has been disposed between the facing coating layers 12, 12'. The pigment may be contained e.g. in printing ink applied onto the transparent layer 12.
The laser beam 8 penetrates through the transparent layer 12, thus heating the pigment 13, resulting in the coating layers 12, 12' melting and being sealed together.
Figures 7 and 8 are examples of the sealing of a plastic-coated board and a plastic film 14 placed against this. In figure 7, the plastic coating 5 of the board 4 is pigmented, while the plastic film 14 to be sealed to the pigmented layer is transparent. The sealing is based on the effect of the laser beam 8 having penetrated through the board 4, resulting in heating of the pigment and fusion of the plastic layers 5, 14 to each other. In figure 8, the plastic coating 12 of the board 4 is also transparent, and to achieve sealing, an absorptive pigment, e.g, a component in printing ink, has been disposed between the board 4 and the transparent coating layer 12. The effect of the pigment 13 heated under the laser beam 8, which results in melting of the plastic in the transparent layers 12, 14, suffices for fusion of the layers to each other.
The embodiments shown in figures 9 and 10 relate to the sealing of uncoated board 4 to a plastic film disposed adjacent the board. In figure 9, the absorptive pigment generating the sealing is dispersed in the plastic film 15, and in figure 10 the pigment 13 is disposed between the board 4 and the transparent plastic film 14 to be sealed to the board. The pigment 13 may be contained in printing ink applied in advance either onto the board 4 or the plastic film 14.
Examples The invention was tested by sealing plastic-coated packaging board sheets to themselves using the technique of figure l, with the plastic-coated sides of the sheet adjacent each other. The laser head consisted of a diode laser having a wavelength of 940 ~ 10 nm, a power of 90 W, a focus point distance of 5 mm from the board surface and a speed of movement along the sealing line of 20-75 mm/s. The following is a list of the test materials and their layer weights together with the laser head speeds for the materials with which the sealing was successful:
1. Board Nature Barn Silver (Store Enso), board (300 g/m2) + PE (58 g/m2), containing 12% of TiOa and 0.15% of carbon black, laser head speed 60-75 mm/s, 2. Board Performa (Store Enso) (210 g/m2) + PET (40 g/m2), containing 2% of carbon black, laser head speed 70 mm/s, 3. Board Trayforma (Store Enso) (350 g/m~) + PET (40 g/m2), containing 12% of Ti02, 4. Trayforma (315 g/m2) + PE (40 g/m2), 5. Trayforma (250 g/m2) + PET (40 g/m2), 6. Trayforma (250 g/m2) + PP (20 glm2), 7. Trayforma (315 g/m2) + PE (40 g/m2), having black Indian ink on the surface, laser head speed 20-25 mm/s, 8. Trayforma (250 g/m2) + PET (40 g/m2), having black Indian ink on the surface, laser head speed 50-80 mm/s, 9. Trayforma (250 g/m2) + PP (20 g/ma), having black Indian ink on the surface, laser head speed 50 mm/s, 10. Trayforma (350 g/mz), having black printing ink on the surface + PET

(40 g/m2), laser head speed 60-70 mm/s, 11. Trayforma (420 g/m2), having red printing ink on the surface + PE (20 g/ma), laser head speed 70 mm/s, 12. Trayforma (420 g/m2), having blue printing ink on the surface + PE (20 g/m2), laser head speed 70 mm/s, 13. Trayforma (410 g/m2), having orange printing ink on the surface + PE
(20 g/m2).
In the trials, sealing occurred with samples 1 - 2 and 7 - 12. With samples 3 -6 and 13, no seal was formed or adhesion was inadequate. No burning of the board during sealing was observed.
The results indicate that sealing by means of a laser beam penetrating through the fibre layer of the board is feasible if the pigment is admixed with the coating plastic, if the pigment is applied onto the surface of the plastic layer or if the pigment is disposed on the surface of the board under the plastic coating. In addition to black pigment, a successful result was achieved also with red and blue pigment. The result is nevertheless dependent of the test conditions, such as the wavelength of the laser beam used.
It is obvious to those skilled in the art that the applications of the invention are not restricted to the examples given above, but may vary within the scope of the accompanying claims. Thus, for instance, the diode laser head can be replaced with an Nd:YAG laser on a wavelength of 1064nm.

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  1. Claims l. A method for sealing a fibre-based material (1, 4) to a counter-surface to be bonded to the material by melting polymer present at s seal point, comprising:

    directing a laser beam (8) through a fibre layer (4) of the fibre-based material to a radiation-absorbing pigment disposed in a sealing area (9), so that polymer present at the seal point is absorptive-heat-melted and the fibre-based material is sealed to the counter-surface of the fibre-based material, wherein a laser source of the laser beam is one of a diode and Nd:YAG laser, and the laser beam has a wavelength of not greater than 1500nm.
  2. 2. A method as defined in claim 1, characterised in that the fibre-based material comprises a polymer-coated paper or board (1) that is sealed to the counter-surface (5', 11', 12', 14) placed adjacent a coating (5,11, 12) of the polymer-coated paper or board.
  3. 3. A method as defined in claim 1 or 2, characterised in that a fibre-based material (1,4) is sealed to the counter-surface containing polymer placed adjacent the material.
  4. 4. A method as claimed in claim 3, wherein the counter-surface comprises a polymer film.
  5. 5. A method as defined in any one of claims 1 to 4, characterised in that the pigment is included in the fibre-based material (1) to be sealed.
  6. 6. A method as defined in any one of claims 1 to 4, characterised in that the pigment is included in a member (15) forming the counter-surface, to which the fibre-based material (4) is to be sealed.
  7. 7. A method as defined in any one of claims 1 to 6, characterised in that the pigment (13) is located on the surface of the fibre-based material (4).
  8. 8. A method as defined in claim 7, characterised in that the pigment (13) is located under a polymer coating (12) of a paper or board.
  9. 9. A method as defined in any one of claims 1-6, characterised in that the pigment is dispersed in a polymer layer (5,15) of a coating or a film.
  10. 10. A method as defined in claim 9, characterised in that the pigment is included in the uppermost layer of a multi-layer polymer coating (5,10) or film.
  11. 11. A method as defined in claim 9, characterised in that the pigment is included in an inner layer of a multi-layer polymer coating (5,11) or film.
  12. 12. A method as defined in any one of claims 1 to 11, characterised in that the pigment contains carbon black.
  13. 13. A method as defined in any one of claims 1 to 12, characterised in that the fibre-based material is a polymer-coated paper or board (1) that is sealed to an adjacent polymer layer (5',11',12',14).
  14. 14. A method as defined in claim 13, characterised in that the polymer-coated paper or board (1) is sealed against itself.
  15. 15. A method as defined in claim 14, characterised in that the method is used for lateral sealing or closing of casing, container or bag packages made of polymercoated paper or board (1).
  16. 16. A method as defined in any one of claims 1 to 15, characterised in that the laser source (7) generates a laser beam having a wavelength in the range of 500 to 1500nm.
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